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Post by paido on Apr 21, 2004 11:58:48 GMT
I feel alittle dejected that the Lone-Wolf series is over. I never had the chance to read the last book so I'm not aware of the outcome, although I can guess. please don't tell me The fact the entire series has been made completely available online for all to see got me thinking. I wonder how long it would take to create a Lone Wolf book of your own? I think we are in a unique position here, I'm hopefully not jumping the gun alittle, but I'd consider it a pleasure to be given the opportunity to write a new Lone Wolf Adventure to an interested audience. Our motives are not to sell copies of our stories but rather, continue on this sort of adventure. Hey, it's probably not possible but I was thinking it's not illegal we're deriving our works from his but mearly for pleasure. I mean, we have the time to make a mod, why not write some books? I'm not trying to discredit the quality of Joe Dever's work, but we have the benefit of not having to think about all the intricacies necessary to create his world, so the task is easier. Any budding writers fancy a go at carrying on from where Joe left off? Or did he draw the series to a timely rather than untimely end? If the latter is true, ignroe everything I said.
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Post by Sarra on Apr 21, 2004 22:06:35 GMT
Actually I have written a book just for my own entertainment purposes based on Lone Wolf and the world of Magnamund. It ended up being about 120 pages long (200 page entries). It begins only a few months before the festival of Fehmarn and you are Alasi Relivaur, an apprentice Vakeros/Magi learner. You are sent far to the north on a quest to warn the magicians there of a impending dream your master had that fortold the fall of the Kai and the Darklord's assault upon Sommerlund and the Lastlands.
After meeting old characters (Viveka, Benadon) and a few new ones you manage to reach the Kai Monestary just as Vonatar's trap comes into play. Distraught at seeing the monestary doomed you weave a spell in an act of desperation. A lone Kai Lord who is rushing toward the battle is tripped by your spell and falls to the ground, rendering himself unconscious. Yep you guessed it. That is the first half of the book.
In the second half you reach King Ulnar and he sends you and your friends (Viveka the Adventuress and Troke the Mercenary-lord) on a quest to call Captain D'Val to Sommerlund's aid. On the way you meet some other characters that are familiar to the Kai Lord series (including some you have heard of but never met). These include Captain D'Val, Lord-lieghtenant Rhygar, Vonotar the Magician, and Lachlan the Warlord.
The book worked out really well and I have tried to contact Joe Dever to see if I could possibly publish it. Ah well. No luck. What do you guys think of the plot?
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Post by paiodooo on Apr 22, 2004 4:39:46 GMT
Sounds great! I can't really comment on the plot untill I get back into the Lone Wolf series alittle more.
I was thinking along the lines, each of us writngs shorts or books following on from one another, and starting off where Joe leftoff.
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Post by p on Apr 22, 2004 4:41:33 GMT
Probably abit ambitious but hey!
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Post by KaiLord on Apr 22, 2004 7:30:15 GMT
One night I started writing something like this, but I abandoned it due to time constraints. It had a twist, though, in that you played the part of a new breed of creature that the Darklords had created.
You were basically going to be an anti-Kai, a foul perversion of the warriors of good, having learned 5 out of a possible 10 disciplines. Some were the same, such as Mindblast and Mindshield. Others were tweaked a bit, such as gaining a +3 bonus in weaponskill instead of +2 when fighting a Kai Lord.
I got about 75 sections written (my goal was 350), but I just haven't had time (or the motivation) since then to write it.
The basic storyline was that you were inserted by Zlanbeast just beyond a Kai outpost in the Durncrags. It was the eve of Fehmarn, and you were supposed to infiltrate the monastery (after gaining Kai clothing) and secure some sort of book or document before the attack for one of the Darklords. While in the monastery, you could not attack anyone until the assault began the next day.
The only problem was that once the assault began, the invaders were so filled with bloodlust and battle frenzy that they attacked you, also.
Oh well...maybe one day I'll write down all the plot, but not soon.
KL
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Post by Sarra on Apr 22, 2004 16:15:07 GMT
Thanks for the input. I could go more into detail about my book but I won't. I would probably post it on here or make it available to you guys except I really, really don't want someone to steal it. I worked really, really hard on it. It took about a month to get all the disciplines and such to come out the way I wanted and to come up with an outline for the story. 5 months went to writing all 200 pages. and then another month went into revisions and tweaking enemy CS and EP.
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Post by Sarra on Apr 22, 2004 16:22:33 GMT
Sounds great! I can't really comment on the plot untill I get back into the Lone Wolf series alittle more. I was thinking along the lines, each of us writngs shorts or books following on from one another, and starting off where Joe leftoff. That does sound like a good idea. However the Lone Wolf character has gone on very far. I think it would be better if we used your idea on a new character(s). Kind of a behind the scenes thing that follows the same timeline. It can't all be about Lone Wolf! Who knows? Maybe a different Kai escaped the Kai Massacre and never crossed paths with Lone Wolf. There are many different ways we could go with this.
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kindaichi
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The Lord taught me to walk...
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Post by kindaichi on Apr 24, 2004 5:51:57 GMT
Why not we write a game book based on the story of Lord of the Rings? We can ask the permission from the author and give credits.
Sure I know the possibility of success is low. But I'm hoping to have Lord of the Rings in game book series in the market....
For Sommerlund and Kai...
For Rohan and Frodo...
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deiseach
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Champion of the Sommerswerd
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Post by deiseach on Apr 24, 2004 9:28:10 GMT
5 months went to writing all 200 pages. and then another month went into revisions and tweaking enemy CS and EP. Wow. Respect
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 25, 2004 4:10:24 GMT
This might be tough, considering that J.R.R. Tolkien died in the seventies, I believe. I think his son Chris has the rights to his stuff. I don't know if these would differ all that much from many other gamebooks out there besides in the general setting. It would be tough to really make it stand apart.
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Post by outspaced on Apr 25, 2004 16:47:07 GMT
Why not we write a game book based on the story of Lord of the Rings? It's been done. Or at least, gamebooks set in Middle-Earth have been done. Back in the 80s ICE (Iron Crown Enterprises) released MERP--Middle-Earth Role-Playing, and published some gamebooks using a simplified version of MERP as the Middle-Earth Quest series. You won't get it. From what I've heard / read, to all intents and purposes, Chris Tolkien is the self-appointed custodian of all things Middle-Earth and he hates interlopers. He wrote his son out of his will because he said he thought the Peter Jackson films would be good--and this was before Fellowship of the Ring had even been released. [Addendum--try writing the full version of the name Chris and posting it to the board. Is this censorship gone MAAAAAAAADDDDDD???]
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deiseach
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Post by deiseach on Apr 25, 2004 17:09:40 GMT
From what I've heard / read, to all intents and purposes, Chris Tolkien is the self-appointed custodian of all things Middle-Earth and he hates interlopers. He wrote his son out of his will because he said he thought the Peter Jackson films would be good--and this was before Fellowship of the Ring had even been released. I've heard that too. A bit of a control freak, to put it mildly. But JRRT credited / blamed the young Chr1stopher for making him make sense of Middle-earth, so perhaps he's entitled to be in charge www.xenite.org/faqs/lotr_movie/news_0000/462.htmlI was wondering what would come out for his full name. Is the host of this site some Chr1stian fundamentalist group? Hope they don't find out about the pagan ways of the denizens of Magnamund
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Post by Sarra on Apr 25, 2004 19:13:14 GMT
Thank you...it took alot of work but it was worth it in the end. I felt like I did a good job of developing the characteristics of characters that were previously untold or not described very well by Dever.
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Post by Banedon on Apr 25, 2004 22:37:55 GMT
I was wondering what would come out for his full name. Is the host of this site some Chr1stian fundamentalist group? Hope they don't find out about the pagan ways of the denizens of Magnamund Proboards, by default, have rather overzealous censoring systems.
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 26, 2004 5:36:15 GMT
That's actually two quotes that I fused together. I think you picked some really interesting characters to expand upon, and obviously professionals would agree. All the characters you mentioned are expanded--on at least a little, mostly a lot--in the Legends series. Once you have the opportunity to get them from the CD, I'm sure you'll enjoy them.
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